| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
xvi, 762 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 691-735) and index. |
| Contents |
Prologue: Exploring the universe within (pages1) -- Part one: Prescientific psychology. The conjecturers (pages11) -- The scholars (pages34) -- The protopsychologists (pages60) -- Part two: Founders of a new science. The physicalists (pages97) -- First among equals : Wundt (pages127) -- The psychologist Malgre Lui : William James (pages144) -- Explorer of the depths : Sigmund Freud (pages166) -- The measurers (pages208) -- The behaviorists (pages242) -- The gestaltists (pages280) -- Part three: Developers and specialists. Introduction: The fissioning of psychology (pages309) -- The personality psychologists (pages311) -- The developmentalists (pages350) -- Contents (cont.): The social psychologists (pages396) -- The perception psychologists (pages435) -- The motivation and emotion psychologists (pages479) -- The cognitivists (pages511) -- The psychotherapists (pages559) -- Users and misusers of psychology (pages599) -- Psychology today (pages634) -- Notes (pages655) -- References (pages691) -- Acknowledgments (pages737) -- Index (pages741). |
| Summary |
Chronicle of the thinkers and scientists who for twenty-five hundred years have been investigating the mysteries of human mind and human behavior. |
| Subject |
Psychology -- History.
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Psychoanalysis -- history.
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Psychology. (OCoLC)fst01081447
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| Genre/Form |
Biography.
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Added Title |
Psychology |
| ISBN |
0385247621 |
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9780385247627 |
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0385471491 |
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9780385471497 |
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